“I just need to go and lie down now. I feel like I’ve been on one of them rides at Disneyland and it’s wonderful.”

Holloway bowed to his adoring crowd before kick-off as they clapped and chanted his name.

Opposite number Alex Neil had been feeling the heat after a run of five games without a win.

The Scot responded with SIX changes — but he had to rip up his notes when Jack Robinson’s long throw caused havoc in the Norwich box and, as Nedum Onuoha tried to turn it in, Olsson handled on the line.

Ref Scott Duncan awarded a penalty and a red card to the Swede — but Chery struck the spot-kick wide.

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Canaries chief Neil said: “I’ve seen it on video and I still can’t make it out, so the ref is a brave man to make that decision through a crowd of bodies. But when you’re on a bad run those decisions go against you.”

QPR’s extra man told as Polter knocked down Chery’s 21st-minute corner and Washington swept home his third R’s strike.

Six minutes later it was 2-0 — and game over.

Chery’s inch-perfect pass fed Polter who nutmegged Ruddy with a composed poke. It should have been 3-0 by the hour when Washington failed to beat Ruddy after Russell Martin’s shocking backpass.

And Ruddy was the hero again as he repelled Grant Hall’s header.

On 78 minutes Naismith nodded in Murphy’s cross but Hoops held on and Neil’s side have now lost four league games in a row.